TUESDAY, March 31, 2015 (HealthDay News) -- Fewer people are
being treated in U.S. emergency rooms for strokes caused by blood
clots in the brain, which experts read as a sign that current
stroke prevention methods are working.

TUESDAY, March 31, 2015 (HealthDay News) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday that use of the CoreValve "valve-in-valve" aortic replacement has been expanded to include people at extreme risk for serious complications of traditional open-heart surgery.

THURSDAY, March 26, 2015 (HealthDay News) -- The overall death
rate from high blood pressure in the United States has increased 23
percent since 2000, even as the death rate from all other causes
has dropped 21 percent, health officials reported Thursday.

WEDNESDAY, March 25, 2015 (HealthDay News) -- A potentially life-threatening slowing of the heart can occur when the common heart drug amiodarone is taken with new hepatitis C medications, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration warns.